Amazon.Com Inc has been hit with an $886.6 million (746 million euro) European Union pleasant for processing non-public records in violation of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the e-trade massive stated on Friday.
The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the exceptional on Amazon Europe Core in a July 16 selection, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing. (https://bit.Ly/2TLIZQ8)
"We consider the CNPD's choice to be with out merit and intend to defend ourselves vigorously on this count," Amazon stated inside the submitting.
GDPR requires organizations to searching for people's consent earlier than the use of their private data or face steep fines.
The Wall Street Journal had said in June that the organisation may be fined more than $425 million beneath the European Union's privacy law, bringing up humans familiar with the matter.
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